They'd have to love West Ham to want to buy the stadium up, there's probably some love there but they love their money and sticking to their frugal business plan more than they will ever love the club and what it's about hence all the changes and the move in the 1st place. We thought (except for a few who knew their MO) it was to build a better quality SQUAD that's able to soak up injuries/loss of form and still be able to give good teams a game. They've seen it as opportunity to carry on as was but with a larger 'customer base' to suck money from.

Treating any Sport like a business opportunity is the beginning of the end of what it was supposed to be about.... competing on a level field to see who wins out.

These two stand for all thats wrong, they got us at a time they would have had never had a chance otherwise and PR'd their way to making themselves out to be the messiah's.

The owners won't sell out, if they had any interest they would've accepted the £650 million offer from Red Bull last season, let's remind ourselves what the clueless idiot Sullivan said on the official site in January

"But I want to reiterate that we, the current owners, have NO DESIRE to sell the club unless it is to somebody like the King of Saudi Arabia who can take it to a level we cannot ourselves hope to reach."

Goose, I'd imagine that the said liabilities of maintenance, insurance, employing personnel, shifting the seats about etc etc and given the current rent means that the price acceptable for sale would be significantly negative, which is politically impossible. Perhaps if there wasnt a requirement to host the athletics something could be done but until then...

why would they want to buy the stadium at an inflated price which at the same time would create a liability in terms of maintenance, insurance etc etc etc? Theyve already got a fantastic deal and the only real reason they'd want to have the freehold is some vague idea about owning the land its on. From a business perspective it makes little sense.

my own school of thought is that they will sit tight until the company running the day-to-day of the stadium faces some serious financial problems. at that point they'll hit them with a low-ball offer to take it off their hands.

Even IF the LS was purchased in the next year or two prior to 2022 Athletics use would still be required until then. In theory a buyer could be found in the preceding years and redevelopment of the LS could begin. IF they can find a multi-billionaire who wants to take the project on..